Hurling

We have been busy practicing our hurling skills in Senior Infants with Kevin, our hurling coach!

Skipping Workshop

We had great fun learning about all of the skills needed to skip well! We learned that we should use our wrists and hands to move the rope around ourselves and to keep our elbow tucked in and our eyes looking straight ahead. Each time we turned the rope around our bodies, we waited for it to pass our eyes before we jumped to get over the rope. We even practised skipping backwards and to the side. We will use our new skipping skills on the yard at lunchtime and at home in our neighbourhood!

Active Schools' Week

All of the boys and girls participated in lots of physical activities as part of Active Schools' Week this week. We had gymnastics in the hall on Monday, dance activities every day and fun activities outside and inside all week!

Cee Cee the rabbit

This week we had a very special visitor in our classroom... Cee Cee, our resident school rabbit! The children in our school take turns to bring Cee Cee home and look after her. It's a very special responsibility and this week we took great care of her, by making sure she had enough to eat and drink and by cleaning out her hutch! We loved having her in our class and are looking forward to taking turns to bring her home with us!

Last Judo session

Today we had our last session of Judo with Andrew and Maeve. We are improving each week and are learning to master some of the more advanced Judo techniques! 

We started today by performing the Rei and stretching...

Next we practised the backwards break fall...

Followed by the forwards roll...

and the sideways roll...

Next we performed the forwards arm crawl...

Then we did the forwards scooch using our arms...

Before finishing up,  we played a game called Nemo, where one person was chosen as a shark and the others had to escape the grasp of the shark. See if you can spot the shark...

We have learnt so much from our Judo instructors this year and we are really looking forward to using what we learnt at home too!